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riding out on a horse in a star spangled rodeo ♪ this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.
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>> you would leave a certain group behind and you would take various section where's they have the oil. >> the united states of america does not invade other countries to plunder and pillage. we don't send our brave men and women around the world to steal oil. >> reporter: president obama, traveling in laos, said it shows trump is unqualified. >> and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. >> reporter: clinton also spoke at last night's forum. >> we are not putting ground troops into iraq ever again. >> reporter: she was criticized by g.o.p. chair reince priebus for not smiling enough while discussing national security. she was asked today if she found the comment sexist. >> i don't take anything seriously that comes from the r.n.c. we were talking about serious issues last night. >> reporter: clinton did acknowledge in an interview posted on facebook that "i know i can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional, but i h
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to learn as a yng woman to control my emotions." she said came from being a female law student at a time when that was rare. that's a hard path to walk, she said. "you need to protect yourself but at the same time you don't want to seem walled off. and sometimes i think i come across more in the 'walled off' arena." clinton announced today she will be meeting with a bipartisan group of high-profile security experts in new york tomorrow, including david petraeus, michael chertoff, and janet napolitano. they're going to be discussing terrorism and how to defeat isis, and it's safe to predict, scott, that there won't be a lot of smiling at that meeting, either. >> pelley: nancy cordes, thanks. perhaps the biggest controversy erupted over trump and russian president vladimir putin. here's major garrett. >> if he says great things about me, i'm going to say great things about him. i've already said he is really very much of a leader. >> reporter: at the national security forum last night, donald trump again heaped praise on russian
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putin, an adversarial strongman known for jailg dissidents and controlling the media. >> the man has very strong control over a country. now, it's a very different system, and i don't happen to like the system, but, certainly, in that system, he's opinion a leader, far more than our president has been a leader. >> reporter: hillary clinton defended president obama and called trump's comments "alarming." >> that is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief. it is scary. because it suggests he will let putin do whatever putin wants to do. and then make excuses forim h. >> i have no faith in hillary clinton or the leadership. i think under the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. >> reporter: clinton then asked how the republican party's toughest cold warrior would react. >> what would ronald reagan say about a republican nomine
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attacks america's generals and heaps praise on russia's president? i think we know the answer. >> reporter: and house speaker paul ryan again found himself at odds with trump. >> vladimir putin is an aggressor that does not share our interests. >> reporter: other republicans in congress told us they are unnerved by trump's fascination with putin. scott, trump has promised if elected to seek closer ties with moscow. the great unknown-- at what cost? >> pelley: major garrett, thanks. now, let's clear the smoke for just a minute and listoten clinton and trump last night on the issues. >> we have to defeat isis. that is my highest counter-terrorism goal, and we've got to do it with air power. we've got to do it with much more support for the arabs and the kurds, who will fight on the ground against isis. we are not
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into iraq ever again, and we're not putting ground troops into syria. >> i think under the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. we go in. we defeat somebody, and then we don't know what we're doing after that. i mean, we lose it. like, as an example, you look at iraq, what happened, how badly that was handled. and then when president obama took over, and he took everybody out. and, really, isis was formed. i have a substantial chance of winning. if i win, i don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. >> i have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the v.a. into the 21st century, to provide the kind of treatment options that our veterans today desperately need and deserve. and that's what i will do as
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privatized. i rolled out my mental health agenda last week, and we've got to remove the stigma. we've got to help people currently serving not to feel that if they report their sense of unease, their depression, that somehow it's going to be a mark against them. >> under a part of my plan, if they have that long wait, they walk outside, they go to the local doctor, they choose the doctor, they choose the hospital, whether it's public or private. they get themselves better. we will pay the bill. and by the way, i never said take the v.a.-- take the veterans administration private. i wouldn't do that. 22 people a day are killing themselves. a lot of it is they're killing themselves over the fact that they can't-- they're under tremendous pain and they can't see a doctor. >> pelley: now let's bring in john dickerson, anchor the "face the nation." john, we were talk today about how specific clinton was about her plans last night but trump was not and
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diminish his support at all. >> no. hillary clinton's supporters love her command of information, but beyond her core surps, there are voters for whom that specificity isn't enough. those voters have one of two emotional recollections to the race. either they don't trust hillary clinton or they have some kind of a gut-level connection to donald trump, and hillary clinton isn't going to break through that emotional connection simply by mastering the material. the only way she can, say pollsters and strategists i talked to today, is by making trump seem unfit for the job, essential replacing one measure reaction with another one, fear. but for those who don't already see donald trump as unfit, making him seem unfit isn't just about the facts. it's about the voters who like him are willing to think he can grow on the job. they think he can surround himself with advisers. they think he was in business and was a success and was a success in the primaries so he must know something. and there's another thing-- they think judgment can replace smart and experience, which is why trump continues to insist, despite the evidence, that he was against
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libya and iraq, even though that's not the case, and he supported both. >> pelley: john dickerson, we'll see you sunday on "face the nation." john, thanks. and then today, there is the third-party candidate who wants to be the third president johnson. he wanted to put himself on the the map in the worst way. today, he did. here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: what would do you if you were elected about leadership? >> reporter: libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson was expected to answer this question by providing his plan for dealing with syria's bloody civil war and the refugee crisis. but instead he said this: >> about? >> aleppo. >> and what is aleppo? >> you're kidding. >> no. >> reporter: shortly thereafter, johnson told another reporter he felt horrible but still struggled. >> knowing that there's a city in between the-- the-- the two forces, really at the epicenter of the-- but not
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identifying that that's aleppo, guilty. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, johnson said he's human and he blanked. "should i have identified aleppo? yes. do i understand its significance? yes." the besieged city is a major battleground in the nearly five-year civil war between rebels and the syrian regime. this image of a boy rescued after an air strike just last month in aleppo has become a symbol of the war's brutality. >> is this the craziest election ever? >> reporter: johnson's foreign policy flap couldn't have come at a worse time for the former new mexico governor. he's been trying to raise his profile and poll numbers to secure a spot on the debate stage with hillary clinton and donald trump. to get there he needs 15% support in five national polls and johnson is currently averaging under 9%. in another intervaw today, johnson acknowledged the consequences of a presidential candidate seeming to lack a basic understanding of
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foreign policy issue. scott, he said for those that believe this is a disqualifier, so be it. >> pelley: julianna goldman in washington. thanks. tonight, there is a standoff in the great plains. 200 native american tribes are fighting construction of an oil pipeline, and north dakota's governor has called in the national guard. mark albert is on the front line of this. >> reporter: the clashes near cannonball, north dakota, have at times been rowdy and physical, with demonstrators pepper sprayed, and construction equipment damaged. the estimated 5,000 native americans and environmentalists now encamped on federal and private land say the pipelinewas approved by the u.s. army corps of engineers without proper permits or can thing the tribe, ignoring the land's historical and cultural significant. >> this whole area here is probably all sacred to the people because it's close to the river. >> reporter: this 23-year-old
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man shoilsd a sacred burial site he said the pipeline disturbed. it strikes me that dakota means friendly, and yet neither side has been too friendly to each other. >> yeah, you know, they instigated the whole situation. they came to use her dogs on my people. they came and maced us. what else are we supposed to do? we aren't going to stand back and let them do this anymore. >> reporter: part of the pipeline will run under the missouri river, had about a mile north of the reservation. they worry the pipeline could leak, destroying their water supply. but the couple says the pipeline is already 50% finished, stretching 1100 miles across four state. it starts in oil-erish backan field in north dakota and ends in illinois. a coalition supporting the project told cbs news it will be among the safest, most technologically advanced pipelines ever constructed." but these demonstrators don't believe it. green party presidential
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this week stood with them, then spray painted on construction equipment, "i approve this message." there's now a warrant for her arrest. a federal judge in washington is expected to rule by tomorrow on the tribe's request for an injunction, but, scott, these demonstrators tell us, win or lose, they won't leave. >> pelley: mark albert for us tonight. mark, thanks. coming up on the cbs evening news, paying the price for not reading a credit card agreement. and later, country royalty turns out to honor glen campbell.ur for more people... to experience... complete protection from frequent heartburn. nexium 24hr. the easy-to-swallow tablet is here.
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detail, just skimmed through it and signed my name to it. >> reporter: because barton, like many americans, finds the contracts too confusing. >> there's a lot of fine print in there. you almost need a law degree to understand it. >> reporter: accord to a new creditcards.com analysis, about 75% of americans don't regularly read them. the average contract requires an 11th grade reading level, although half of the american adult population resident at a ninth grade level or below, and the average agreement is nearly 5,000 words long. in fact, the less you might appear to understand, the better chance you'll be targeted with high-risk offers, because customers are targeted in part by their education level. antoinette schoar chairs the m.i.t. sloan finance department and examined roughly a million credit card offers. >> customers who are more educateeducated and financiallye sophisticated, receive very different credit terms.
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companies send less-sophisticated consumers flashiery letters tha letters te them with 0% annual percentage rates but fail to highlight hidden and backloaded fees. >> look at the last page of the offer letter. all the important features, in particular the a.p.r., the late fees, the credit card companies have to show you all the cost of the card. >> reporter: we reached out to the american bankers association. scott, it says that it strongly supports clear and simple disclosures. >> pelley: jericka, thanks very much. well it was clear today that one bank's employees were committing fraud on an astonishing scale. more than 5,000 employees at wells fargo have been fired for opening unauthorized accounts that the customers knew nothing about. 1.5 million bogus checking accounts, about half a million credit cards in the names of real customers. it was a scheme to win bonuses for
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tuskegee airmen. >> turn around and disperse. >> pelley: but in the jim crow south he was not allowed to vote. in 1965, after moving it to new york, montgomery was shaken by news of civil rights protesters attacked in alabama, so he joined the march, becoming a body guard for martin luther king jr. montgomery would later see the fruits of his efforts on a visit to the selma courthouse. >> when i went down to that room, a black woman was sitting behind the desk where the white woman said, "no, you cannot vote." that was my revenge. >> pelley: dabney montgomery was 93. another man is being honored for service to country and his story is next. ♪ by the time i get to phoenix this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage.
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door is always open and your path is free to walk." good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i'm glen campbell. >> pelley: that's the "the glen campbell goodtime hour" here on cbs 47 years ago. campbell, who's now battling alzheimer's disease, has just been honored by the academy of country music. here's anthony mason. ♪ i've been walking these streets so long ♪ singing the same old song >> reporter: "rhinestone cowboy" was glen campbell's first number one hit. it became his signature song. ♪ like a rhinestone cowboy >> reporter: at the a.c.m. honors blake shelton led an all-star tribute to the 80-year-old country legend, whose wife kim says is now in the late stages of alzheimer's. >> so he can't really communicate verbally, but he
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with the universal languages of smiles and hugs and kisses ♪ by the time i get to phoenix ♪ ( applause ) >> reporter: the son of an arkansas sharecropper, glen campbell broke through with this song in 1967. he scored 21 top-40 hits. ♪ and the wichita lineman >> reporter: and in 1968, his cbs tv show, "the glen campbell goodtime hour" , made him a household name. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i'm glen campbell. >> reporter: and everything changed after that, didn't it? >> yeah, it did. i didn't realize the power of television. >> reporter: in a 2012 interview for "cbs sunday morning," one of campbell's last, the effects of alzheimer's, diagnosed a year earlier, were apparent. >> alzheimer's. >> we got that? >> you do. >> i do? >> uh-huh. >> i don't feel it anywhere. i am happy to be here. >> reporter: with his three
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and providing moral support, campbell was able to play a two-year farewell tour ♪ galveston, oh, galveston. >> i think it encouraged a lot of people who are living with alzheimer's to know that you don't have to just stop doing what you love. you just need a bigger support group around you. ♪ and the wichita lineman >> reporter: alzheimer's has silenced the singer, but not his songs. ♪ and i'm doing fine >> reporter: anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and you can see the tenth annual a.c.m. honors tomorrow night at 9:00, 8:00 central, right here on cbs. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night.
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right now at 7:00 p.m. convicted with a blink of an eye. a case that made history in maryland comes to a conclusion. no jail for former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife. why the state is dropping charges. neighbors speak up bouse of noisy planes -- because of noise eplanes and -- planes and searching for a killer. i am bruce johnson. friends and family are gathering for a vigil to honor a teenager shot and killed in virginia. 17-year-old maurice burger was gunned down at 10:30 p.m. last night in front of the steps to his house. the gunman fled the scene. a car was seen leaving the area and police think that vehicle might be involved. today police looked for clues. >> the neighborhood down at this end

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